One Word Wonder

Up early again.

Currently clueless.

# It took you 2 minutes and 10 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 1st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Woohoo! First time in the top 10!

# It took you 4 minutes and 54 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 4th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
# Average solve time: 3 minutes and 4 seconds.
# Median solve time: 3 minutes and 42 seconds.

For those who need salt:
No research is needed; everything you need, both the answer and the clues to know when you find it, are in the image.

My first top 10 as well :D

# It took you 4 minutes and 39 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 7th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
# Average solve time: 3 minutes and 17 seconds.
# Median solve time: 3 minutes and 42 seconds.
# 46.667% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

It took you 13 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 8th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Well, my best so far.

WooHoo!
My first top ten! Yeah!

-It took you 17 seconds to solve this puzzle.
-You were the 9th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
-Average solve time: 2 minutes and 37 seconds.
-Median solve time: 2 minutes and 28 seconds.
-47.368% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

well, I'm obviously not seeing something
All I see is a lake (or bay or water) and a tree and some people (maybe lovers?) and driftwood, and sand and sky and clouds...

been looking at the tree trying to make something out of it but :-(

nope - not mongoose either...

This is supposed to be the easy puzzle??

Try looking from further away......

Holy Crap that just blew my mind. It was nothing, nothing, nothing, then BAM! And once you see it, it just won't go away. Things like that always creep me out.

Leadfoot, try backing away and looking at it.

On that note, I'm taking a much needed nap 'til the puzzles are *supposed* to be up...

wait a minute...

that WAS the answer? omg. i saw THAT in the first 2 seconds. i just figured... i dunno.. i was supposed to DO something with it. it's just the answer.

oh.

this isn't a word puzzle. it's a hidden picture puzzle. can you find the hidden picture?

some salt for those who haven't seen it. try taking a piece of paper and covering up everything from the left edge all the way to the people. then ignore the people, and look at the thin strip that is still showing. once you see what's hidden, take the paper away and you'll see the rest.

[11] Yes, I thought I was supposed to do something else with it too but couldn't make anything work.
Dissapointing really/

I have found what may be a hidden picture...
but - if that's something I'm supposed to recognize - is it something I may not recognize from under my rock???

Some cartoon character?

Look at it differently

I was seeing a face on the right side of the picture, with the horizontal branch being a smiling mouth, the branch above coming from the left being the eye...

but now I see it differently.

Thanks all

Wow - that's neat!

[15] Check BGG for higher-concentration salt.

LOL - so, I saw it the whole time, but didn't think it could be that easy.

whoa that is really creepy.

It's almost sad to solve it, because then you can't see the original picture any more.

if you think you see a heart, imagine it as a foot.

This puzzle is on quite a few other sites. Weak.

[10] No kidding! I didn't see it and then someone else walked into the room and said it. Now that's all I can see! Creepy.

I LOVE these kinda things, even though they drive me nuts till I can see the two different things.

It'd be interesting to find out how many women see it faster than men. I was looking for nearly five minutes. Then I saw it, put in the answer, and showed Mom. She got it in 3 seconds. :p

What helped me was looking at it from across the room for a minute or so, then coming back and looking at it from normal distance. As soon as I came back, poof! There it was.

[24] gilby123
well, it took me 34 minutes... maybe the highest time for the night!

From what it looks like to me, that is technically the wrong answer.

My boyfriend saw it quicker than I did. And I've had two of these.

yup, saw 'it'
once seen, cannot unsee.

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It took you 1 minute and 41 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 163rd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
Average solve time: 4 minutes and 28 seconds.
Median solve time: 1 minute and 28 seconds.

Seen this one before, so it only took a couple of seconds. Great puzzle. Wish I would have thought of adding this one.

Strange question....aren't these puzzles usually original? Should anyone other than the person responsible submit a puzzle?

I hadn't seen this one before ... great illusion. Took me a while to see anything but the lake and tree.

Wow, my first thought was no way I'm getting this. Then it jumped out at me.

Dude, that's freaky. looking at it across the room helps.

I would agree with [27] that the answer should be _ _ _ _ _ rather than _ _ _ _ But then again, that would even be more creepy…

[27] I agree. I didn't get it right until my second attempt.

[35] That was my first guess, too. And my wife's.

I've seen this illusion before. But 10 seconds to solve is still fast for me. Maybe I should start staying up late to see the puzzles when they first get posted.

nice!!!!

Fun!

wow... 4 sec.... I've seen this one before!!!

[31] As someone who crafts original puzzles, I have to say that I'm disappointed that this was accepted. Link to it, put it in the forum, but don't pawn it off as your own.

[42] I was beginning to think I was the only one who had a problem with this. It seems that we could all just steal someone else's image and submit it as something we "created." It seems unethical to me.

[35] freelancelot
much of the world believes a _ _ _ _ _ IS a _ _ _ _

I wonder who the artist of the actual picture is, thats a cool picture

freaky tree though

your right though once you see "it" you only see "it"

[42] I also felt that way when I saw it. I was wondering why the puzzle said "Author: ldstalk" when I've seen this image in many other places before.

The puzzle creator should actually... I dunno... CREATE the puzzle.
Hey... I made up a puzzle, too.... You land on an island where one tribe of people always tell the truth, and the other tribe always lie....

oh, never mind.

very cool.

[46] Does it involve a block of ice and a midget?

I followed a link here, and knew the answer from the link, but took a minute to stare at the photo and get it. What a neat picture. If original to author, KUDOS!

Awesome!!!

Love this puzzle!

Well, this is a different OWW. I like it, though.